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QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Jul 25, 2014 -> 08:18 PM) Charlotte not having many offensive issues these days. With decent pitching, that lineup would dominate. They've won 10 of their last 11

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 25, 2014 -> 09:35 PM) So he's an A-. We all should shut up then. That means he's great. An A is a great rating. We all should be ultra satisfied with Gordon Beckham. If he's an A-, wow, he's actually elite. As Eminor pointed out above, ASGS+ is actually the better advanced stat, and Beckham's ASGC+ is 82.46%, which grades out at B+, so slightly below elite

Danks unlucky for once

Hey Mariners, u like?

Beckham 0-3, lol

Wimpy is so fun

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In the last 39 batters Bucciferro has faced, he's allowed 1 hit, with 21 groundouts, 5 flyouts, 2 popouts, 1 lineout, 1 reaching on error, 1 erased on a double play, 1 walk and 9 strikeouts.

4 perfect for Bucciferro, 6K

3 perfect for Bucciferro, 5K

Bucciferro had a one-hit complete game last time out, tonight he's started with a perfect 2 innings: 4 strikeouts and 2 groundouts

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 25, 2014 -> 12:58 PM) Those of us advanced stat haters laugh again. If there are advanced stats that say Beckham is anything but a C-minus grade type player then I say, cmon. All you do is have to watch the games and track season after season to know Beckham is lousy. I mean are we all in agreement Beckham is a C or D player? He's no A or B. Beckham rates as an A- on the Advanced Stats Grading Scale (ASGS) However, if he keeps on hitting like he is, he's heading straight for a B+ in the minds of the advanced stats gurus

Engel singled and stole his 26th base

This write-up on Cleuluis from MiLB a few weeks back sums him up nicely.

Cleuluis hitting .270/.308/.392 since promotion. Nice surprise.

Chris Beck, man. Can't figure him out.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 06:26 PM) They didn't put that defense in place (from 3-4 years ago) with Endy Chavez/Franklyn Gutierrez/Jack Wilson/Ichiro using any type of offensive statistics that I've ever heard of.

Ravelo and Kevan Smith both 1-1 with a double Trey got a hit!

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 05:10 PM) Except the Mariners were the first team to use defensive metrics extensively. Just because they're interested in Viciedo doesn't mean they're ignoring his peripherals either, it just means they believe he has potential to be something more, so they can try to buy him on a low (just like 2 months ago teams inquiring about Beckham would have been overpaying had they been forced to pull the trigger at that point for an injury). The Mariners don't need pitching. That's the least of their problems. They need to improve nearly every element of their offense, other than Seager, Cano and Zunino. J. Jones and Ackley have been doing fine recently but who knows how long that will last. SS (Miller), Morrison and Hart have been really hurting them. Basically, their outfield's been a mess. I was listening to an old Baseball Prospectus podcast the other day that talked about how Jack Z was coached for his GM interview about new statistics and still judges players by batting average, RBI, homers, ERA etc. And I wasn't saying the Mariners specifically, I was saying a Mariners-type front office.

The one thing that gives me pause for the Yankees seriously being in on Danks is how heavily they used peripherals to evaluate Brandon McCarthy, and to a lesser extent Chase Headley (batted-ball speed). I feel like we'd be more likely to offload Danks to a team like the Mariners who still seem to use basic evaluations of performance, because Danks does not look good outside of the ERA, which itself is meh.

It says a lot about a player when striking out almost 20% of the time over a 28 PA sample size is a noteworthy achievement

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 01:16 PM) xFIP uses normalized HR/FB rates and his xFIP is 3.29, good for #23rd in MLB. No matter how you slice it, Q is one of the best pitchers in the game, a guy you could squint hard enough and see as an ace but that slots perfectly in as your #2 in a tough playoff series. The Sox could very well have the best 1,2,3 punch in MLB rotation wise in 2016. I think I like SIERA the most and his is 3.48, but yeah, Q is great whatever you look at.

One guy I'd love to get from the Mariners if we were dealing with them is Dario Pizzano. Superb plate discipline numbers and starting to add the requisite pop for a corner OF/DHy type. http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playe...;position=DH/OF

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 03:16 AM) I really don't think Q's been around long enough to have "career average" in anything yet. Maybe not but when league average is 10.6% and his first two years were 10.5% and 10.2% I think it's probably safe to say 5.4% is the outlier. Same with Chris Sale, his HR/FB has been 11.1%, 10.9%, 11.6%, 12.5% and this year it's 6.2%. That should rise.

QUOTE (woods of ypres @ Jul 23, 2014 -> 09:59 PM) Quintana's BABIP has stayed pretty flat too (infact, its the highest of his career this year), so this isn't some sort of lucky year, either. He's getting lucky with home runs, 5.4% per fly ball compared to 10.2% last year and 10.5% the year before. Those tend to regress towards career average, so we should expect him to start giving up more dingers. On the other hand, he's stranding a few less runners than normal, 69.3%, compared to 76.6% last year and 74.7% the year before. LOB% is also something that tends to regress towards career average. Overall his ERA is probably about right, maybe a touch lower than it should be, but certainly nothing that screams unsustainable.